The works of Shakespear
Subtitle: In six volumes
By: Adorned with sculptures
Contributors: Hanmer, Thomas, Sir, 1677-1746, editor; Hawkins, Thomas, 1729 or 1730-1772; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
Edition: The 2d ed. ...
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Copyright date: 1770
Notes: This title is prefixed to v. 1 only; v. 2-6 have title: The works of Mr. William Shakespear ... 1770. (the latter title appears also in v. 1 as added t.p.).

Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition of 1744, revised by Thomas Hawkins, with additional notes by Bishop Percy, Mr. Warton, and John Hawkins, and "Various readings of Mr. Theobald and Mr. Capell" at end of each volume.

Contains the Chandos portrait, Stratford bust (as altered for Pope's edition) and the Westminster monument, also an engraving to each play, by H. Gravelot after F. Hayman.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Preface [by Sir. T. Hanmer] Mr. Pope's preface. Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear, by N. Rowe. An epistle addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his edition of Shakespear's works. By Mr. William Collins. Comedies: The tempest. A midsummer night's dream. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measure. The comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing.; title: v. 2. Comedies: The merchant of Venice. Love's labour's lost. As you like it. The taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night: or, What you will. The winter's tale.; title: v.3. Historical plays: King Lear. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, pt. I-II. King Henry V.; title: v.4. Historical plays: King Henry VI, pt. I-III. King Richard III. King Henry VIII.; title: v.5. Tragedies: Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth.; title: v.6. Tragedies: Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Glossary.